Child Protection Syrian Arab Republic Project #21637

Child Refugee Crisis

by Save the Children Federation

Project Report | Oct 9, 2018
Hear it from the Teachers

By Save the Children | Save the Children

A 3rd grade teacher in Turkana Central sub-county.

Four million refugee children around the world are out of school – missing out on their right to an education due to displacement, poverty and exclusion. For refugee children who are in school, teachers matter more than any single factor and serve on the frontline in delivering on the world’s promise to provide all refugee children with a quality education, according to our report on Getting Refugee Children Back to Learning.

“Hear it from the Teachers” sheds light why the education of refugee children matters, as well as the greatest challenges teachers face in doing their jobs to support the ability of refugee children to recover, learn and thrive.

“Education is a lifeline for refugee children – it helps them cope better with their current situations while fostering hopes for the future,” Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children said. “That’s why investing in teachers should be the highest priority if we are to achieve our aim of providing quality education to all refugee children.”

Without an education, teachers fear that the outlook for refugee children is bleak. The report findings make clear that refugee education provides children with hope for the future, helps them start to feel safe and recover from trauma, and leads to greater peace and stability.

“Education is essential for children. It's like the difference between light and darkness. Without knowledge, their options are limited. School is participation and joy. Children open up to the world and think of their responsibilities. Education is very important because we need a generation equipped with knowledge. That's strength,” Mahmoud al-Salem, a Syrian early childhood care and development teacher in Lebanon said.

In completing the report, Save the Children interviewed 28 teachers and facilitators from refugee and host communities in Bangladesh, Lebanon and Uganda. According to those interviewed, their ability to support refugee children’s learning and recovery is often thwarted by four key issues:

Refugee children’s psychosocial well-being
Their struggle to learn the new language of instruction
The limited capacity of the most marginalized children to catch up and start learning without targeted support
The lack of professional development and support teachers receive to meet refugee children’s distinct needs in these respects

Save the Children teachers recognize the need to provide refugee students with targeted psychosocial and language support, and for marginalized children to access learning. Because refugee children face distinct issues, the teachers called on host governments, agencies and the international community to do everything possible to support teachers to ensure refugee children thrive in their classrooms, and the most marginalized return to learning.

Teachers are our biggest allies and our biggest assets in the effort to return every refugee child to learning.

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Jul 9, 2018
July Update; Child Refugee Crisis

By Save the Children | Save the Children

A portrait of Laila* at Leda Camp, Bangladesh

Story of the Month

Laila* lives with her mother Halima Khatum* and father in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Laila was admitted to a Save the Children nutrition centre in May 2018, when she was found to be suffering from Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM). She had caught fever and diarrhoea on the journey from Myanmar to Bangladesh and lost a lot of weight, only weighing 6.8kg for her 74.3cm height.

With Save the Children’s support, Laila is gaining weight and becoming healthy again. After a month with Save the Children, Laila now weighs 7.3kg. Save the Children has also helped Laila’s family through digging a tube well near her home, setting up clean toilets near her home, and providing her parents with a hygiene kit.

Halima Kahtum said: “Save the Children is now giving me special peanut paste to give to my daughter, to make her healthy again. We are getting free medical treatment and medicine from the Save the Children clinic."

Since August 2017, 688,000 Rohingya children and families have fled to Bangladesh following a rapid and alarming escalation of violence in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. Save the Children is working around the clock to ensure Rohingya children and their families are supported in their basic human rights. We run more than 180 child-friendly spaces and centers which support Rohingya children’s learning and well-being. We are distributing food, shelter items and hygiene and household kits as well as digging latrines and handing out warm clothes and blankets for the cold winter months. Save the Children has reached more than 624,000 people including nearly 350,000 children.

Thanks to compassionate people like you, Save the Children is there, on the ground every day, working to provide essentials – like food and safety – to children trying to survive these extreme conditions. We're working nonstop to ensure children are safe, cared for and learning. Learn more and support our work here. Thank you!

*Names have been changed for privacy.

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Apr 11, 2018
Stop the War on Children; New Report

By Matilda Story | Project Leader

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